Bluff Quotes

“I'm going to be frank, Max..."
"Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.”
― Alfred Alcorn, The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man

“There’s just one problem, Van Eck. You’ll need Kuwei Yul-Bo to do it.”

“And how will you take him from me? You are outgunned and surrounded.”

“I don’t need to take him from you. You never had him. That’s not Kuwei Yul-Bo.”

“A sorry bluff at best.”

“I’m not big on bluffing, am I, Inej?”

“Not as a rule.”

Van Eck’s lip curled. “And why is that?”

“Because he’d rather cheat,” said the boy who was not Kuwei Yul-Bo in perfect, unaccented Kerch.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“She’s a poker player’s wet dream. Sorry, sweetheart, you can’t bluff for anything.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Poisoned Apple

“Bluff ain't effective for people of type-A.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Taccone smiled. “And you’ve come here alone,” he said, but it was really a question. “Now, I could say yes, and have you think I’m lying.” She took a step forward, ran her hand across the baby-soft leather of a wingback chair. “Or I could say no, and have you think I’m bluffing. So maybe I’ll just say . . . no comment.”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“I have the whole team just around the block! One call and they'll ride in here like cavalry! Riding on... robots! Giant robots! Well, not giant robots, like in Egan, but... but... big enough robots!”
― Dennis Liggio, Burning Monday

“If you bluff you can’t falter. You must tell a story your opponent can believe and make him believe it. It an odd way, you must believe the story yourself. And you can only do that if you believe in yourself.”
― Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Bluff

“Et ce qui étonne dans cette guerre, c'est la réussite inouïe du culot, dont on doit retenir une chose: le monde cède au bluff. Même le monde le plus sérieux, le plus rigide, même le vieil ordre, s'il ne cède jamais à l'exigence de justice, s'il ne plie jamais devant le peuple qui s'insurge, plie devant le bluff.
(p118)”
― Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour